Wheel, Mixed media on Board, Shannon Johnson Artist’s need to relax more. Artist’s need to forget more. And they need to try less hard. It’s easy to say those things, far far harder to do it. It’s a crazy notion, to learn only to forget. To practice only to let it go. But every artist I encounter is trying to do the same thing, relax, let it go and tap into the unconsciousness that gets them into a state of flow. It’s at the heart of all creativity, whether you’re trying to w

If anyone knows anything about Sidney Nolan, they know his Ned Kelly series: an Australian bushranger immortalised in enamel on hardboard, many painted on the kitchen table of Heidi on the outskirts of Melbourne while Sunday Reed made steaming cups of tea and writhed in the bedsheets. I thought I knew the works of Nolan. I was wrong. One wing in MONA is dedicated to Snake, over 1600 illustrations of abstract creatures and people, marked with simple lines and colours that when

Big blow outside Crookwell Black Spot on Bombay Road Damn near the Shoalhaven River Dead end on Reservoir Lane Killer on the King’s Highway Mine eat it small Rape fields near Goulburn Scarface near Trunkey Creek Strange fruit on the road to the tip Stacked up on Braidwood Road After two weeks, Dark side of the Road, is coming to close. It’s been a great show and absolutely amazing to be part of Art Month. If you couldn’t make it, I’ve posted images of them all here and the on